Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving
seat Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just £144. So while he's the first to
admit that he's still only a 'trainee farmer'* there is clearly still work to be done. Because
while he's mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything some of the other attributes
required of a successful farmer prove more of a challenge. Who knew for instance that loading
a grain trailer was more demanding than flying an Apache gunship? That cows were more dangerous
than motor-racing? Or that it would have been easier to get planning permission build a nuclear
power station than to turn an old barn into a farm restaurant? But if the council planning
department and the local red trouser brigade seem determine to frustrate his schemes at every
turn at least he's got Lisa Kaleb Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his dry-stone-walling Head of
Security to see him through. And cold beer brewed with spring barley harvested from Diddly
Squat's own fields ... Life on Clarkson's Farm may not always go according to plan. There may
not always be one. But there's not a day goes by when Jeremy can't say 'I've done a thing' and
mean it ... * generous in Kaleb's view ____________ PRAISE FOR DIDDLY SQUAT 'Clarkson has done
more for farmers in one series than Countryfile achieved in 30 years' James Rebanks author of
A Shepherd's Life 'Clarkson has showcased the passion humour and personalities of the people
who work throughout the year to grow the nation's food ... and brought an understanding of many
of the issues faced by farmers to the British public' National Farmers Union 'A deserving
Farming Champion of the Year' Farmers Weekly 'I don't know anything about farming. It's like
David Attenborough doing jet-skiing or Nicholas Witchell saying I'm going to be a cage
fighter' Jeremy Clarkson
